Most of the more than 7,400 UW-Madison students who live in the university?s residence halls will move in on Wednesday and Thursday, and that means there will be some street closures, UW Housing said.
A Madison man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault for a sexual assault near the University of Wisconsin campus last week.
Just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1970, Vietnam War protester Karl Armstrong lit the fuse to a 2,000-pound bomb packed inside a stolen Ford Econoline van on the UW-Madison campus and sealed a grim milestone in Madison?s history.
Three women have been sexually assaulted by strangers on or near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week, and police believe two of the assaults may have been committed by the same man.
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A sexual assault on Madison?s Near West Side has prompted police to warn UW-Madison students of the dangers of walking alone late at night.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling joked that she?s spent 23 years recruiting the newest member of her force. But she wasn?t really joking.Riseling on Thursday swore in Ryan Bridges as a full-time UW police officer.
A 21-year-old Madison woman was sexually assaulted in a parking lot early Wednesday morning, according to a release from Madison police.
Three unrelated sexual assaults were reported between Sunday and early Wednesday in neighborhoods near the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Sexual assault remains a persistent problem on America?s college campuses. Violence prevention expert Carmen Hotvedt of UW-Madison talks about efforts in Wisconsin to reduce, and hopefully eliminate, the problem.
When Willie Karidis graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, he took off for a summer job drilling for gold in Alaska because a friend said he was made for the place.
University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a taste of a second ?polar vortex? after accepting her nomination for the Ice Bucket Challenge Tuesday.
While Verveer said he?s been hearing fewer complaints from constituents about out-of-control parties than in years past, he said that?s been more a result of how police and campus officials have handled the problem.
The leaders of a University of Wisconsin-Madison college research organization and Dane County?s Boys and Girls Club said no public money was used when they helped Michael Brown?s three siblings secure college scholarships.
When summer seems to disappear faster than a brat at Camp Randall Stadium and your definition of a ?hot? day is 75 degrees, you tend to celebrate as much time as possible outdoors in the sunshine. That?s especially true when you?re a student or a visitor to the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Madison?s Wisconsin Hope Lab is responsible for securing full-ride scholarships for the three siblings of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old Missouri teen killed during a police shooting.
Ellenberg, who will speak Tuesday at Milwaukee?s Boswell Book Company, has been encouraging people to apply “the power of mathematical thinking” (to borrow his book?s subtitle) for years through his column for Slate, Do the Math, and other newspaper and magazine articles.
The 2011 Mifflin Street Block Party was a turning point in the event?s history, and figures released by the Madison Police Department this week show it.
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
Jordan Ellenberg is a former math child prodigy who has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard and is a current mathematics professor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: “For me, the greatest part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been my experience with the Union. The Wisconsin Union Directorate WUD is the student programming board on campus responsible for planning student events like movies in our on-campus theater or concerts on the terrace. WUD also creates amazing friendships that last a lifetime. My work with the Union has given me a space on campus to learn and grow.?- Sarah Bergman, political science and history.
It?s time again for the annual mid-August moving days downtown, where thousands of students (and many others) move out of their current residences and into new places for the 2014-15 school year.
They climb on him, sit on his shoulders, kiss his cheek ? all without asking.
The cost to police for the Mifflin Street Block Party fell for the second straight year in 2014, authorities said, with a total price tag of just over $94,000.
While out on a run last week, a student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison came across an envelope filled with cash. But, instead of pocketing the money, the runner returned the missing envelope to the police.
As thousands of leases on Madison homes and apartments turn over this week, organizers of a drive to reduce waste in the big move hope the bins at the Embassy ? and others at a dozen more high-rises ? will soon be full of those gently used and perfectly good items that are often thrown away
A UW-Madison student out for a run last week found an envelope filled with hundreds of dollars, and then did what the envelope loser probably thought wouldn?t happen: the finder turned it in to police.
Few streets Downtown, near the UW-Madison campus or on the isthmus are easy to negotiate during moving week, but East Johnson is especially difficult this year, thanks to the road construction.
Noted: Another public institution, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, dealt with a Veishea-like tradition by bringing the party on campus instead.
UW-Madison police say Robert E. Mueller, 48, was pulled over at the intersection of S. Park Street and W. Washington Avenue because his tail light wasn?t working.
UW-Madison is not the only university opting for shorter MOOCs after disappointing course completion rates, Inside Higher Ed reports.
University of Wisconsin ? Madison has been hailed as one of the friendliest university for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students.
UW-Madison Police said S. Jean Gibson died at a local hospital from her injuries.
UW-Madison students will have access to the ?Shell? while other recreational sports facilities on campus are renovated, says Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration.
The CFPB named four large credit unions affiliated with universities that do not disclose financial agreements on their websites, and said they demonstrate a lack of transparency.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s new School of Music is finally scheduled to break ground in 2015.
Massive open online courses will return to the University of Wisconsin at Madison next year — or something that looks like them will, anyway. Having reviewed the results from its first round of MOOCs, the institution will offer new courses that are shorter, cover fewer topics and target Wisconsinites.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is expecting its second-largest class of state-resident freshmen in nine years this fall.
A woman shot herself on Madison?s west side Tuesday afternoon six hours after police put out an alert for residents to avoid the area.
UW-Madison is among the nation?s most LGBT-friendly college campuses, says The Princeton Review. The campus ranked 7th in a list of the 20 most LGBT-friendly campuses, LGBTQ Nation reports.
The three candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin?s attorney general debated at the University of Wisconsin Law School on Tuesday.
A woman who led police on a day-long search through fields and woods on Madison?s West Side after causing a disturbance at a nearby clinic shot herself Tuesday afternoon as authorities closed in, UW-Madison police said.
Total applications for incoming freshmen increased by about 400 for Wisconsin residents from the previous year, the university announced Tuesday. In-state freshman enrollment is expected to hit about 3,700, down slightly from last year but still the second-highest it?s been since 2005. Total freshman enrollment won?t be released by the school until after classes begin.
For the past three years, we have been members of a new student Trout Unlimited organization on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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The University of Wisconsin football program will no longer let freshman players serve as student hosts for recruits after an incident in December 2013 led to sexual assault charges.
Outdoor learning takes to Lake Mendota for two more sessions this summer in UW-Madison?s ?paddle with a professor? lecture series. The guided trips offer people a chance to learn more about the history and topography of the lake while taking in its dreamy sunset views.
Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne and state Rep. Jon Richards of Milwaukee are scheduled to meet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s law school on Tuesday (at noon).
Wisconsin came in No. 8 in the annual Top 20 listing of the best party schools by the Princeton Review, one of four Big Ten Conference schools to make the list.
Back home in America, a UW-Madison PhD candidate is watching the situation very closely.
A man who was convicted of two home invasion robberies in the Downtown and UW-Madison areas last year, and implicated in others, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison.
Fears over the deadly Ebola virus are growing, and those fears hit home for a group of UW-Madison students.
A UW-Madison staff worker was bilked out of more than $4,000 by scammers who threatened him with arrest if he didn?t pay unpaid taxes, police reported.
Graffiti is a foreign concept to the surroundings of the serene, secluded setting of Picnic Point on the UW-Madison campus, but police investigators are trying to find who is responsible for tagging the surface of a fire circle at the location.
The UW School of Music, which in recent years has annually presented hundreds of concerts by top-notch musicians for free, will begin charging for its most high-profile performances in 2014-15.
For visitors to Madison, whether they?re parents of UW students or in town on business, the Memorial Union Terrace is an essential stop: Lake Mendota, boats, ice cream, brats and beer, with perhaps some live music and a beautiful sunset to boot. It?s not hard to understand why the place is so iconic — a summer evening at the Terrace seems to sum up Madison?s vital essence.
Johannesburg – Comment was not immediately available on a Sunday Times report that senior member of the ANC and MP Pallo Jordan did not have the academic qualifications he claimed to have.
The vandalism was reported on Wednesday, and most likely happened between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon, UW-Madison police said in a news release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said taggers have caused more than $1,500 in damage to Picnic Point.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is seeking help to solve a case of graffiti sprayed on one of the fire pits at the popular Picnic Point on the shores of Lake Mendota.
